It was suggested to me recently that I ought to work on developing my discernment. Having been raised by a roving pack of wild Jesuits, whenever I think of the word "discernment", I think of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

However, not being a Christian (let alone a Catholic -- not that that stopped the two Hindus who have become Jesuits!), I have begun adapting the Spiritual Exercises to my own ends. Very roughly, two of the most important of these ends are (1) to move away from a sin-based understanding and towards a Will-based understanding, (2) to place the Roman god Antinous at the center of the work, and (3) to adapt the work from one based in the Æon of Asar to one based in the Æon of Heru.

Why Antinous? For one, he's awesome. For two, he's really hot. And, for three, there is at least one depiction from the ancient world that might syncretize him with both Dionusos and Yeshua bar-Yosef ho Christos ha Mashiach, all of whom shared similar Dying-and-Reborn stories.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Second Week: The Fifth Day


Will follow a contemplation concerning Antinous's life from the time of his meeting Diuus Hadrianus Caesar up until he took the Lesser Mysteries at Eleusis, and concerning that initiation, as below in the the Life of Antinous.

It will take place as well at midnight as the first thing in the morning. It will, moreover, be repeated twice about the hours of noon and Vespers. Before supper, the five senses will be applied. And each of these five Exercises will be preceded by the preparatory prayer with the three preludes, as has been explained in those above, concerning all the mup gods; adding also the three colloquies, as concerning the Classes, or according to what was there noted at the end.

And the usual particular examination after dinner and supper, will be made on this and the following days concerning the faults and negligences which have happened with respect to the particular Meditations and Additions of that day.
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